Derick Janse Wortman

ON APRIL 9, 1691, DIRCK WOERTMAN AS WIDOWER OF MARITJE TEUNIS MADE A PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT WITH ANNETJE AUKES (WIDOW OF WYNANT PIETERS, DAU. OF AUKE JANS VAN NUYS WHO EMIGRATED IN 1661 AND MADE HIS WILL IN 1694 NAMING HIS DAU. ANNETJE AS THE WIFE OF DIRCK JANSEN WOERTMAN). THERE WERE NO CHILDREN OF THIS MARRIAGE. Parents: JANS WILLIAM WOERTMAN and HARMTJE (HANNAH).

DIRCK JANS WOERTMAN(1) was born about 1630 in AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND. He immigrated in 1647 to AMERICA. DIRCK JANS WOERTAMN, IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1647, THE DATE FIXED WHEN IN 1687 HE TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AT BROOKLYN AND STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN IN THE COUNTRY 40 YEARS.

ALTHOUGH KNOWN DURING THIS PERIOD SIMPLY AS DIRCK (DERICK) JANS, IN 1680 HE RESUMED THE SURNAME OF WOERTMAN AND WAS KNOWN BY IT FROM THEN ON. JUST WHERE HE LIVED FROM 1647 TO 1661 IS NOT CERTAIN, BUT ON 10 APRIL 1661 HE AND HIS WIFE (MARRIETJE TEUNIS DENYSE) WERE ADMITTED TO THE BROOKLYN DUTCH CHURCH. JUST WHEN THE COUPLE WAS MARRIED IS NOT KNOWN, BUT IT WAS PROBABLY IN 1660. AT THIS TIME AND SUBSEQUENTLY DIRCK OWNED PROPERTY IN BROOKLYN AND OPERATED THE BROOKLYN FERRY.

THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY TOOK PLACE IN 1687. He was a TOWN OFFICER in 1673 in BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, KINGS CO., NEW YORK. IN ABOUT 1660, DIRCK OWNED PROPERTY IN BROOKLYN AND OPERATED THE BROOKLYN FERRY. THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY TOOK PLACE IN 1687. DIRCK WAS MADE A TOWN OFFIECER IN 1673 IN BROOKLYN.

THE WOERTMAN TRADITION IN AMERICA HAD EEN ONE OF CIVIC LOYALTY. DIRCK JANS HAD BEGUN IT IN 1673, AS NOTED ABOVE, BY BECOMING A TOWN OFFICER. He died in 1690 in BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, KINGS CO., NEW YORK. THE ENGLISH FORM OF HIS NAME IS RICHARD WORKMAN.

He was married to MARRIETJE TEUNIS DENYSE about 1660. Children were: HARAMITA WOERTMAN , FEMMETJE (PHOEBE) WOERTMAN, JAN DERICK WOERTMAN, GEERTRUY WOERTMAN, TEUNIS DERICK WOERTMAN, PAULIS (PAUL) WOERTMAN , CATHERINE WOERTMAN, DENYSE (DENNIS) WOERTMAN, LYSBETH (ELIZABETH) WOERTMAN , ANNETJE WOERTMAN, MARRETJE WOERTMAN, PETER DERICK WOERTMAN, LOREWYCK (LODEWYCK) DERICK WOERTMAN.